Leacock built a boathouse at Old Brewery Bay and would often escape there to write in the early hours. RONNY JAQUES, 1940/LEACOCK MUSEUM ARCHIVES Kenneth Kidd Feature Writer “The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy

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Wednesday night’s CSI was an episode titled “Willows in the Wind.” The tortured play on words, crossing “in the wind” with the Kenneth Grahame book title (does this make Ted Danson’s CSI leader Toad of Toad Hall?) was matched by the excruciatingly tediou

4 January 2012 Last updated at 12:15 ET Denis King rehearses with Jack Solloway, who is playing Toad in Walberswick An Ivor Novello Award-winning songwriter is staging his musical version of Wind In The Willows in his local village hall in Suffolk. Denis